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 LECTURE / MEETING: Here and Back Again
April 18, 2006
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Quilting: it is a way of life. From sewing on the end table to keeping a fabric stash in trunk of your car, we are all a bit possessed and I am no exception.
Follow my journey in quilts from a former River City Quilters' Guild member to my move to Colorado and all my quilting adventures there. I work in a quilt shop. When new fabrics that comes into the shop I will make a quilt and then make the pattern to go with it. (Yes, it really is frustrating for customers to see samples and not have patterns for them.)
I teach a myriad of classes that cover machine quilting, easy quilts, fast quilts, scenic quilts, seasonal quilts, wearable art, 3 dimensional quilts or projects, color theory and designing on the computer with Electric Quilt 5. I also teach Christmas gifts, how to be precise and how to let loose with a set of wacky blocks and animals.
That's January and the schedule repeats every month with new projects and blocks. Colorado is where the weather may change hourly but I am quilting the entire time.
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WORKSHOPS:
Dates below. 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: 3235 Pope Avenue, Sac., CA (Map)
Link to: Registration
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Machine Quilting Class:
The Rules and How to Break Them
April 29, 2006
- Supply list
In this class we will discuss everything you need to know about machine quilting. There are so many choices as to what is available:
learn the good, the bad and the awful about products in the marketplace. Batting, thread, needles, marking products and books all have something to offer. Which ones really help and which ones do you
really need? Many of your machine quilting questions will be answered in this class.
We will be making quilting samples of what you are supposed to quilt and what you can what you can do, discussing the pros and cons of each batting from the batting kit in the class. Batting does make a difference and this is your opportunity to quilt on 10 different types of batting available in the batting kit. We will be using a walking foot and a free motion foot.
Supply List
• Kit Fee: $12 for batting samples you will use in class
• Sewing Machine in good working order, cleaned with the ability to drop the feed Dogs. Check your Sewing Machine manual for "Darning" setting, power cords, foot control.
• Walking foot: some may be built in (Pfaff) May be called Plaid Matcher or Dual Feed Foot. Some have seam guides with them, bring those, too.
• Free Motion Foot: May be called Darning Foot, Open Toe Free Motion foot or Quilting Foot. Not 1/4" foot
• 20 pieces of muslin, washed if that is what you would normally do with your fabric, ironed and cut to 10" square. Please do not have any sizing on your muslin.
• Quilter's griping gloves are very helpful. Below are the 2 best available.
Quilt Gripper Gloves are my preference: Light weight cotton gloves with soft plastic dots. These should fit like a glove¡ or second skin. or Machingers are good and offer support like support hose, great if you have arthritis or other hand issues.
• Paper and pencil for notes
• Permanent pen to write on Muslin for labels, can be a sharpie fine point.
• Thread should be good quality Mettler 40 in a gray or medium shade, not black or beige (this spool has brown writing on the side), YLI Machine quilting Thread is good, King Tut, Aurifil Thread 40. My preference is Mettler. 2 -3 Bobbins wound with same thread. Gutterman quilting Thread, DMC Quilt Thread and other Glazed (Glace') threads are not good for your machine; they are designed for hand quilting and not to be used in a machine.
•Quilting Needles Should be Schmetz Quilting Needles size 90/14
•Small scissors are handy to have.
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Clown Fish Class: Loose, Wet, and Wild
April 19, 2006
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This colorful quilt will have any sea lover eating out of your hands. Three dimensional fins and button eyes give this quilt its whimsical nature. Have fun with the colors in this quilt and you can't help but smile at the results.
This class will introduce an unusual method for sewing a pattern. This method works without a lot of fuss and can be easily applied to other pieced blocks. In this class you will create a whole school of fish. Fun will be had as you loosely piece the fish, and you will find the setting blocks between the fish have been streamlined for additional ease.
Supply List
• Pattern will be required: $8, sizes include crib, lap or twin.
• Sewing Machine in good working order, cleaned. Power cords, foot control, 1/4" setting or 1/4" foot, extra sewing machine needles
• Paper and pencil for notes, Scissors for paper and Scissors for fabric,
• Seam Ripper
• Freezer paper 9 x 12" sheets, 1 or 2
• Thread should be good quality Mettler 50 or Aurifil Thread 40 in neutral gray or matching fabrics. 2 -3 Bobbins wound with same thread.
• Rotary Cutter, ruler: 6' x 24" is best, mat to fit, rotary cutter
Fabric Yardage:
These are very close measurements, no mistakes in cutting! I like to add 1/8 to 1/4 yard to all measurements "just in case". Borders are cut cross grain and will need to be pieced. Scraps of cream or whites for Stripes.
CRIB: 42X52"
Background: 1 1/2 yard
8 colored squares/Fish: (6) 1/4 yard, (2) 1/6 yard
Inside Border: 3/8 yd
Outside Border: 3/4 yard*
Binding: 1/2 yard
LAP: 50X70"
Background: 2 1/2 yard
8 colored squares/Fish: (8) 3/8 yard
Inside Border: 1/2 yard
Outside Border: 1 1/4 yard
Binding: 3/4 yard
TWIN: 69 x 89"
Background: 3 1/2 yard
8 colored squares/Fish: (8) 5/8 yard Inside Border: 1/2 yard
Outside Border: 1 3/4 yard
Binding: 7/8 yard
* Directional border, add 1/2 yard
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